demonstrations

• Afghanistan
• Greece

Some 500 asylum seekers and local activists on the Greek island of Lesbos gathered late Monday evening for a peaceful protest against the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. They held up Afghan flags and banners that read "We say no to Taliban".

• United Kingdom

An attempt to deport two migrants considered illegal by the authorities led to a neighborhood protest in the Scottish city of Glasgow last week, forcing the police to release the two foreign nationals.

• Afghanistan
• Germany

Deportation flights of asylum-seekers to Afghanistan remain controversial, due to the precarious security situation there.

• Morocco
• Senegal
• Spain

Locals working in the tourism sector on Spain's Canary Islands have been hit hard by coronavirus lockdowns. Though many of them welcome foreigners, migrants arriving irregularly from Africa who have been housed in empty hotels have caused xenophobia to escalate.

• Austria

The deportation of three girls to Georgia and Armenia has caused controversy and tension in the governing coalition between the green party and conservatives in Austria. Many people criticized the government for expelling children who were considered to be "well integrated", including a 12-year-old girl born in Austria.

• Italy

A reported 800 residents in the area of Cassibile, some 15 kilometers from the Sicilian city of Siracusa, have signed a petition against the construction of a village meant to host seasonal farm workers.

• France

Authorities have removed a new camp just a week after hundreds of migrants were left homeless in the French capital. Police used tear gas to drive the inhabitants out and decried an "illegal occupation of public space."

• Germany

Around 5,000 demonstrators have marched in Berlin to call on Germany to do more for refugees and migrants made homeless in Greece. Protesters said the government should not block state or local efforts to help.

• Germany

Thousands of people took to the streets of cities across Germany on Wednesday to show their solidarity and to call on the German government and the EU to take in more than 12,000 migrants left homeless by fires at Moria camp on Lesbos.

• Germany

Protesters have set up chairs in Berlin to represent residents of the overcrowded Moria camp in Greece. They say the first positive coronavirus test at the camp has made the need for intervention even more urgent.

• Italy

Protesters in Rome took to the streets on Monday, July 27, to call on the Italian government to stop financing the Libyan coast guard and to close detention centers. They also called for a transfer of migrants from Libya through humanitarian corridors.

• France

Thousands of people marched in Paris and across France on Saturday in a string of protests against racism, alleged police violence and other social injustices, including undocumented migrants.